Foresight: Speculating Wanda’s Present By Looking To Her Future
Speculating wisely about the conclusion of Disney+ WandaVision
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Storytelling
WandaVision: Witch Way Is The Story Going?
How does the history of witch trials and modern witch-centered story inform WandaVision?
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Diana’s Heroine’s Journey Continues in Wonder Woman 1984
The character of Wonder Woman has a long, and sometimes troubled, history in the pantheon of DC Comics superheroes. Across
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Flying Solo: Friendship in Julie and the Phantoms
Long-time podcast collaborators Tricia Barr (Fangirls Going Rogue, Hyperspace Theories) and Teresa Delgado (Fangirls Going Rogue, Star Wars Bookworms) have joined forces
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New Insights on the Flawed Finale: The Rise of Skywalker Revisited
Nearly nine months have passed since the theatrical premiere of The Rise of Skywalker, and in that time Lucasfilm has
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The Story Process Origins of a Dissonant Redemption: The Rise of Skywalker Revisited
At the beginning of this year in the weeks following the theatrical release of The Rise of Skywalker, FANgirl Blog
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Reconsidering Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi After Knives Out
Undeniably, Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi produced widespread disagreement upon its theatrical release in December 2017. Some considered it to
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The Failures of The Rise of Skywalker, Part 6
The fundamental problem with The Rise of Skywalker is simple: a disappointing but not terrible movie finishes the Sequel Trilogy.
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The End of the Skywalker Saga: The Failures of The Rise of Skywalker, Part 5
The Skywalker Saga has always been about family – even when it was just Star Wars, before it ever took
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Rey Deserved Better: The Failures of The Rise of Skywalker, Part 1
From its earliest incarnations, in the ideas generated by George Lucas and the blue sky imaginings of J.J. Abrams and
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